Recently arrived in London with his mother and sister (the rest of the family remain in Ghana), eleven year-old Harri needs to learn the rules and language of the street – and quickly.

Pigeon English is a coming-of-age novel, but it also specifically deals with the challenges of being a boy—and particularly a young black boy living in a tough, violent community. Although Harri does not have a personal inclination toward violence, throughout the novel he faces pressure from the Dell Farm Crew to prove himself as a man. Download the Gospel of John in Pidgin English here. Sample text: GOSPEL WEY JON RITE JON CHAPTA 1 How God Word Com Mit Us 1 From wen taim bigin na im di word dey, and di word dey wit God, and God kpa kpa Imsef na im bi di word. 2 Di word dey wit God from wen taim bigin. Download now or view online the free printable Wild birds flashcards for kids on english language with real images. English flashcard. English flashcard. Download free printable english flashcards for kids 'Wild birds ' Square. 1 picture card per page.

Living on the eleventh floor of a block of flats on a rough London council estate where the Dell Farm Crew rule the roost, Harri is a kid who loves his family and with his own dreams. But then a boy is knifed to death on the estate: the police call for witnesses is met with silence. With a little too much TV experience and crime series in particular to his name, Harri along with best mate Dean, enticed by the thrill and adventure, decide to naively start their own investigations.

Pigeon English is something of a hybrid first novel from Stephen Kelman. That it is homage to the experiences of young migrant kids and alien environments is unquestionable. But Kelman himself also confirms that it is homage to the 2000 murder of 10 year-old Damilola Taylor on London’s notorious North Peckham estate by local gang members. Taylor had only recently arrived with his family from Nigeria.

But the novel is also a celebration of childhood, friendship and the innocence (or not) of experience in an ever-changing world. Told from Harri’s infectious and ebullient curiosity and glorious multicultural slang, he might possibly be the fastest runner in his school: he certainly believes himself to be in love with classmate Poppy: he misses his Papa, grandma and baby sister still in Ghana. But Harri is also wary of gang members X-Fire and Killa along with his sister’s worldly friend, Miquita (girlfriend of Killa).

It’s an endearing read tinged with more than a little sadness – the waste, the hopelessness, the fear, the despair of life in such environments. Harri tries to make the most of it – and it is his enthusiasm for the world around him that draws you into the book.

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Pigeon English was shortlisted for the 2011 Booker Prize, but lost out to Julian Barnes and The Sense of an Ending.

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Pigeon English Phrases

• Pigeon English Key Quotes from themes
  • Death
    • 'Death'
      • Violence
        • 'police line'
        • 'fuzzy wuzzy'
        • 'burn'
    • 'Dead boy'
      • Violence
        • 'police line'
        • 'fuzzy wuzzy'
        • 'burn'
      • Gender
        • 'white girlfriend '
        • 'down her pant'
        • 'did I make your willy go hard?'
    • 'Chook'
    • 'Coffin would be in a aeroplane'
      • Innocence
        • 'Dust'
        • 'As high as the lighthouse at James town'
        • 'Haribo'
        • 'Yellow'
        • 'Bleach cloud'
        • ' Teaching'
          • Childhood
            • 'parrot costume'
            • 'a hell of a different colours like a rainbow'
            • 'Haribo'
            • 'Bleach cloud'
        • 'Can't be a pirate' because he can't swim'
        • 'Mission'
          • Childhood
            • 'parrot costume'
            • 'a hell of a different colours like a rainbow'
          • Responsibility
            • 'Guarding'
            • 'Saw off to school'
        • 'Cornrolls'
        • 'Do you have happiness?'
        • 'Dead boy...bouncy ball'
        • 'I pretend like I'm God easing himself on his favourite cloud'
    • 'Red all over'
    • 'Kill'
    • 'DEAD'
    • 'dead boy's killer'
    • 'Somebody was going to get killed'
    • 'You could see the blood. It was darker than your thought'
  • Innocence
    • 'Dust'
    • 'As high as the lighthouse at James town'
    • 'Yellow'
    • ' Teaching'
    • 'Can't be a pirate' because he can't swim'
    • 'Mission'
      • Responsibility
        • 'Guarding'
        • 'Saw off to school'
    • 'Cornrolls'
    • 'Do you have happiness?'
    • 'Dead boy...bouncy ball'
    • 'I pretend like I'm God easing himself on his favourite cloud'
  • Family
    • 'Burned her fingers on the stove'
    • '**** off'
    • 'Footprints'
    • 'At least my boyfriends not a murder'
    • ' Mama...at work...Papa to far away'
  • Gender
    • 'white girlfriend '
    • 'down her pant'
    • 'did I make your willy go hard?'